“The presence of even one murder has a great cost,” said Kim Smith, the director of national programs at the University of Chicago's Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention programs ...

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

“The presence of even one murder has a great cost,” said Kim Smith, the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence-intervention programs have helped ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Joe John, a former North Carolina appeals court judge, state crime lab director and until ... John received multiple degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...